Officially Quitting Smoking

According to stqp.org in about 20 minutes after my last cig. I will have already started healing my 15+ year abuse to my body. It looks like it's going to take longer than I thought to fully Quit and heal, but I am ready...I am scared...but I am threw feeling like crap, looking like crap and wasting money for something that just doesn't make me happy anymore!

• In 20 minutes, your blood pressure and pulse rate decrease, and the body temperature of your hands and feet increase.
• Carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke reduces the blood’s ability to carry oxygen. At 8 hours, the carbon monoxide level in your blood decreases to normal. With the decrease in carbon monoxide, your blood oxygen level increases to normal.
• At 24 hours, your risk of having a heart attack decreases.
• At 48 hours, nerve endings start to regrow and the ability to smell and taste is enhanced.
• Between 2 weeks and 3 months, your circulation improves, walking becomes easier and you don’t cough or wheeze as often. Phlegm production decreases. Within several months, you have significant improvement in lung function.
• In 1 to 9 months, coughs, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath decrease as you continue to see significant improvement in lung function. Cilia, tiny hair-like structures that move mucus out of the lungs, regain normal function.
• In 1 year, risk of coronary heart disease and heart attack is reduced to half that of a smoker.
•  Between 5 and 15 years after quitting, your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker.
• In 10 years, your risk of lung cancer drops. Additionally, your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decrease. Even after a decade of not smoking however, your risk of lung cancer remains higher than in people who have never smoked. Your risk of ulcer also decreases.
• In 15 years, your risk of coronary heart disease and heart attack in similar to that of people who have never smoked. The risk of death returns to nearly the level of a non-smoker.

So In the same time it took to get to this point, it will take me to fix it!
Thank God, I  have that option.

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Countdown to my first 20minutes starts.....NOW!
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Day 1- started off ok, coffee helped stomach upset and headache.  Managed to get outta bed and see the kids to the bus. I found my cig. butt stash in the minivan ashtry. I took out the biggest ones and dumped the rest. I don't know why i have them, but they sort of make me feel empowered to have them. I don't want to smoke a butt. cuz if i do that i will have to start healing all over. grrrrr (8:22am)

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Day 2-honestly...IT SUCKS! but i am trying really hard to keep myself busy and not sit in one spot for very long...my house is getting cleaner buy the minute, so all-in-all not a bad day. Keeping it together is harder today. My brain wants one thing and my body does the opposite, not sure what that's about. (12:58pm)

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Day 3-GRRRRRRR! I WANT A CIGARETTE! but...I know that, it's just the nicotine talking not me! My morning coffee didn't work this morning, not sure why but i drank a whole pot hoping it would help. I did notice one thing though. I don't feel so dry and dehydrated, it might be the gallons of water I've been drinking and all that peeing I've been doing. My children are involved with my quitting smoking and I think that helps...I mimmick what they do...they don't smoke so I am learning what they do by watching them. (when they are home that is). When they are at school I clean...and Clean and CLEAN some more. Oh, and I lost 5lbs in the last 3 days. woot woot! (12:16pm)